{"id":1924,"date":"2025-08-01T18:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/liberty-mutual-compels-client-to-pay-411k-in-surety-bond-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:10:43","slug":"liberty-mutual-compels-client-to-pay-411k-in-surety-bond-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/liberty-mutual-compels-client-to-pay-411k-in-surety-bond-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Mutual compels client to pay $411k in surety bond fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The defendants appealed, but the appellate court affirmed the lower court\u2019s decision. The judges pointed to New York law, which says a surety is entitled to indemnification upon proof of payment\u2014unless the payment was made in bad faith or was unreasonable in amount. In this case, Liberty Mutual submitted the indemnity agreement, documents showing the bonds were issued, records of payments to claimants, and an affidavit from a regional vice president with an itemized list of payments. The court found this evidence sufficient. The defendants, meanwhile, failed to raise any factual dispute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defendants appealed, but the appellate court affirmed the lower court\u2019s decision. The judges pointed to New York law, which says a surety is entitled to indemnification upon proof of payment\u2014unless the payment was made in bad faith or was unreasonable in amount. In this case, Liberty Mutual submitted the indemnity agreement, documents showing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1174,1176,1173,1172,320,1170,1171,215,1175],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-411k","tag-bond","tag-client","tag-compels","tag-fight","tag-liberty","tag-mutual","tag-pay","tag-surety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}